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Birth Weight

"Birth Weight" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The mass or quantity of heaviness of an individual at BIRTH. It is expressed by units of pounds or kilograms.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Birth Weight" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Birth Weight" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 1059 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 69 publications in 2016
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